{"id":108918,"date":"2018-10-30T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=108918"},"modified":"2018-10-30T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:00:38","slug":"thomas-e-muhlenkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/10\/30\/thomas-e-muhlenkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas E. Muhlenkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas E. Muhlenkamp, 80, of rural Rockford,\u00a0passed away Friday, October 26, 2018,\u00a0at Mercy Health St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center in Lima.<\/p>\n<p>He was born September 28, 1938, in Geneva, Indiana, the son of Charles J. \u201cCarl\u201d and Lucile A. (Spangler) Muhlenkamp, who both preceded him in death.He married the former Nancy Krotzer on June 9, 1973, and she survives in Rockford.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/American-Flag-for-obituaries-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" \/>Other survivors include a son, Thomas (Amy) Muhlenkamp of Houston (Ohio);\u00a0one daughter, Julie Huddleston of Columbus;\u00a0three stepsons,\u00a0Kenneth\u00a0(Donna) Link of Mendon, Terry (Rosemary) Link of Auburn, Indiana,\u00a0and Randy (Trish) Link of Celina; two sisters, Rose Dirksen of\u00a0Greenville\u00a0and Joan (Larry) Hesson of North Star; 10 grandchildren; and\u00a0many\u00a0great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A sister, Mary Lou Alt, also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Friday,\u00a0November 2,\u00a0at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Celina, with Father Vince Wirtner officiating.<\/strong><strong>Burial will follow\u00a0at Mercer Memory Gardens in Celina, with\u00a0graveside military honors rendered by American\u00a0Legion Post 210 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5713, both of Celina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitation is<\/strong><strong>from 4-7 p.m. Thursday,\u00a0November 1,\u00a0at W.H. Dick &amp;\u00a0Sons-Hellwarth Funeral Home in Celina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials:The Center for Neurological Development in Burkettsville.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dickandsonshellwarthfh.com\/\">dickandsonshellwarthfh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas E. Muhlenkamp, 80, of rural Rockford,\u00a0passed away Friday, October 26, 2018,\u00a0at Mercy Health St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center in Lima. He was born September 28, 1938, in Geneva, Indiana, the son of Charles J. \u201cCarl\u201d and Lucile A. (Spangler) Muhlenkamp, who both preceded him in death.He married the former Nancy Krotzer on June 9, 1973, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 04:10:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}